The offer in CM Live Deal is limited-time and real-time offer which is created by site administrator or merchant. Offer can be started or stopped by merchant at any time.

User can browse for the deals in his/her city and claim the deals without paying to website or by paying an advance payment (the remaining amount is paid at merchant). After getting coupon, user can redeem and receive discount from merchant.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Joomla! 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 4.x.x or 5.x.x: CM Live Deal is only compatible with Joomla! 3.9.x, 3.10.x, 4.x.x, 5.x.x. Any older versions of Joomla!, for example Joomla! 3.5.x, is not supported. Please check Joomla!‘s Technical Requirements for more information.
• Bootstrap 4 or Bootstrap 5: CM Live Deal is compatible with both Bootstrap 4 and Bootstrap 5 and requires one of these versions available on your site.

FEATURES

For merchants:

• Easy sign-up: User can register for a Joomla! user account and a merchant account at the same time.
• Easy profile management: Merchants can manage Joomla! profile and merchant profile in the same place.
• Create unlimited deals.
• Start and stop deals at any time: Create deals when merchants need traffic and customers, stop deals when merchants satisfy their traffic needs.
• Know how much their deals attract customers by impression and click values.
• Manage their coupons. Mark coupons as redeemed.
• Know if user is a trusted customer (user will come to redeem coupon).
• Know if user is a return customer.
• Upload photos of their stores, products,... to promote for their businesses.
• Integrate with membership component Membership Pro. Limit how many deals merchant can create, how many days merchant's deals are available on the site.
• Find and redeem customer's coupons easily by scanning coupon's QR codes.

For users:

• Search for deals by keyword, category and city.
• Get coupon just in few clicks.
• Ability to get coupon without registration.
• Manage claimed/captured coupons.
• For free deals, users don't need to pay to get coupon, only need to pay directly to merchant, no more asking website owner for refund. For deals requiring payment, users only need to pay a small amount to the site first, the remaining amount is paid at the merchant.
• Coupon is available immediately after claiming or paying, do not need to wait until deal reaches its minimum claim/purchase quantity like traditional groupon sites.
• No daily mails: Users are not bothered by marketing emails every day, they only find deals when they need and come to merchants to redeem instantly.
• Share deals to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest.
• Redeem coupon by scanning coupon's QR code.

For site owners:

• Create unlimited categories and sub-categories (powered by Joomla!'s Categories component).
• Easy to manage merchants and cities via Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.
• Easy to manage the uploaded photos of merchants.
• Get coordinates by location address or by clicking and moving marker on Google Maps/OpenStreetMap, no need for copy-paste coordinates from Google Maps website.
• Manually create new coupon.
• Provide coupons in HTML or PDF format (mPDF PHP library is required).
• Integration with Jooma!'s Group: charging merchants for subscription/membership for posting deals on website by integrating with third party extensions of Joomla! (eg. Membership Pro).
• Responsive website: with the power of Bootstrap, website is responsive and nicely displayed on mobile devices, saving the cost for developing and maintaining iOS and Android applications.

Supported payment gateways:

• PayPal
• Stripe

Supported languages:

CM Live Deal comes with English by default. The following translations are contributed by CM Live Deal users but not 100% translated:
* Spanish (es-ES), translated by ServiApps
* Portuguese (pt-PT), translated by Eugênio Telles.
* Italian (it-IT), translated by Davide Boris Minniti and HolalaWeb.